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Sun. 4/12/15 5:17pm
fleep:
Freberg got paid to make ads that lampooned advertising itself. He was subversive in many directions.

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Sun. 4/12/15 5:19pm
Gaylord Fields:
@fleep: The phrase "biting the hand that feeds him" should be retired in his honor.

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Sun. 4/12/15 5:20pm
Gaylord Fields:
Freberg made his disdain for the tricks of advertising abundantly clear in his comedy, and then he somehow got clients to pay him to expose these tricks in service of their products.

Sun. 4/12/15 5:33pm
P-90:
Some of these losses just hurt more than others somehow, and I'm still reeling from the news about Freberg. I guess one develops extra-strong feelings of connection to particular cultural figures.

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Sun. 4/12/15 5:34pm
Gaylord Fields:
@P-90: This one is affecting me more than I would have expected. I've been a fan since childhood, and he subverted my worldview as much as Mad magazine, etc.

Sun. 4/12/15 6:51pm
dk:
it totally doesn't -- but overexposed pop songs are so widely criticized that it's easy for them to become guilty pleasures in spite of their redeeming qualities (and i think 'life in a northern town' has a lot of those.)

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Sun. 4/12/15 6:53pm
Gaylord Fields:
@dk: I read you, but I try to operate under the assumption that one person's overexposed is another's unheard. But then, I have the luxury of contextualization within a set of music to make my case.